Some of the questions in this chapter are similar to what God asks Ezekiel when he questions him about the dry bones.

Old Testament: KJV
Job
14


1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and brings me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

10 But man dies, and wastes away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayed and dried up:
12 So man lieth down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
16 For now thou numbers my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewed up mine iniquity.

18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of his place.
19 The waters wear the stones: thou washes away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroys the hope of man.
20 Thou prevails for ever against him, and he passed: thou changes his countenance, and sends him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceived it not of them.
22 But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.